Promotes sustainable participatory rural development, women's empowerment, health care, political participation, freedom from violence and Dalit development through community development centres set up in 60 villages; has set up a Training Resource Centre.



A mission driven voluntary organisation

Promoting the process of Participatory Rural Development in one of the most backward regions of India



The two groups that form the focus of SAHAYOG's attention--

Women- the perennial second class citizens - exploited even more in the hills of U.P. where she is the main agricultural and domestic worker

Dalits-the community that has been cast outside the mainstreasn of Indian society as untouchable- dispossessed in thier own lands in the U.P. hills



Our Work ares--

Uttar Pradesh--one of the most backward states in the country - home to a sixth of the country's one billion people

Uttarakhand-- the once verdant and snow capped mountainous land of the Himalayas in U.P.--now ravaged by human greed, where human life is a constant struggle against the harsh physical conditions- the rocky terrain, the winter snows, the monsoon landslides and the occasional earthquakes



OUR FAITH

People can and will take charge of their own destinies give the opportunity and a little help

Our Strategies

-Organisation

-Information

-Capacity Building

-Empowerment



Functional Units of SAHAYOG

The Training and Resource Centre TRC

Assists other organisations and individuals

-In their work on Women's Health, Women's Political Empowerment, Popular Knowledge and Gender

- Through Studies and Documentation, Training, Production and Dissemination of material, Networking and Advocacy

SAHAYOG links up with grassroots people's organisations , National and International organisations and networks to help attain its mission



The Community Development Centre CDC

- Works directly with the weakest in the community in fifty mountain villagees in the Uttarakhand region of Uttar Pradesh

- Assisting in the process of Women's Empowerment in twenty five villages through women's organisations ..economic programmes..reproductive health programmes..adult literacy..assisting single women..providing fora..

- Helping dalits in twenty five villages in their quest for socio-economic development and self respect ..through community organisation..community planning..education programmes..health programmes..economic programmes..



The Team

SAHAYOG is an equal opportunity organisation with more than fifty percent of functionaries being women, even at the decision making levels



SAHAYOG believes that its own organisation culture should reflect the values --justice, opportunity, unity, openness , and capacity building



The SAHAYOG family includes forty full time paid workers including - gender specialists and activists, public health specialists and activists, researchers, community organisers, trainers, and a host of other committed workers